LTE deployment and evolution: challenges

and opportunities

Sandro Dionisi
NGMN Board chairman
Head of Telecom Italia Lab
Telecom Italia
Outline

 LTE scenario
 Challenges and NGMN actions
 Opportunities
 Telecom Italia insight

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The NGMN Alliance is supported by the key
industry players

Members: 18 worldwide leading mobile operators

More than
50% of
world wide
subscribers

Sponsors: 34 worldwide leading technology vendors

More than
90% of
worldwide
equipment

= New Partners joined

Advisors: 8 universities / research institutes since MWC 2011

Status: 23.2.2012

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 LTE commercial launches worldwide

800 MHz band 1800 MHz band

AWS band Germany Poland, Finland, Germany,
Denmark, Hungary, Lithuania,
Canada
Latvia, Singapore, Hong Kong,
Saudi Arabia, UAE, Australia,
South Korea

850 MHz band

South Korea
700 MHz bands 2100 MHz band
USA Japan

2600 MHz band

LTE TDD
Brazil (2600 MHz), Poland (2600
MHz), Saudi Arabia (2300 MHz)
Norway, Sweden, Austria,
Hong Kong, Finland,
Germany, Denmark,
Estonia, Armenia,
Singapore, UAE, Russia

49 commercial networks in 29 countries (source GSA)

NGMN Partners already launched LTE:

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 Frequency Auctions: focus on 800 & 2600 MHz
in Europe

800 country overall price paid 2600

30 MHz FDD €Ct/MHz/pop FDD/TDD

800 MHz - €Cent/MHz/Pop 2600 MHz - €Cent/MHz/Pop

14 12,8 13
90 80,9
80 72,5 12 10,8
70 10
60 46
8
50 40,9
5,9
40 6
30
4
2,2 2,6 2,5
20
10 2 0,4
0,1
0 0
DE SWE ESP ITA DE SWE ESP ITA AUT DNK FIN NL FR
Total cost
[Bn]
3,6 0,233 1,3* 2,96 [Mln] 453 223 173* 432 40 136 3,8 2,7 936

*Taxes excluded 5
Frequency availability

 Many bands made available to operators (auctions, refarming,

…)
– But spectrum fragmentation may impair roaming
 Frequency below 1 GHz made available for the first time to
mobile broadband services
– Huge investments to ensure frequency availability
– Opportunity to bridge the Digital Divide, driven by
coverage obligations and EU Digital Agenda
 New auctions foreseen in mid to short time in many Countries
 Seeking new suitable spectrum is a key objective for mobile
industry

A strong commitment to deploy LTE

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Role of NGMN in LTE deployment and
evolution

 LTE promises impressive capabilities:

– Throughput up to 300 Mbps
– Radio round trip latency 10 ms
– All IP network

 Live networks confirms promises but highlights challenges

 NGMN is the alliance where Operators and Vendors share their
experiences and address challenges

 Solving technical challenges is a requirement to fulfill

promises and open new opportunities
 NGMN to play a key role in cross SDO coordination
(Convergent Network Management) and definition of
requirements for new technologies
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Challenges: Quality of Service

 Common recommendations
 LTE enables on voice over LTE
a better and smarter – CSFB as interim solution and
quality management assessment of further improvements
 Voice and – VoLTE as target
data/voice services  Define KPI and procedures to
remain a key asset assess video quality and correlate
QoS with user experience
 Video as one of the
 Exploit live networks to verify
main service drivers
user experience

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Challenges: Backhauling

 LTE will deliver very  Backhauling by radio and/or

fiber to provide enough capacity
high peak data rates
– driven by accessibility and
 Carrier aggregation will geographical constraints
further enhance
 Requirements for all-IP
throughput transport solutions
 Cloud RAN deployment
 Define open interfaces between
to improve reliability
baseband and Remote
and capacity Radio Heads (ORI)

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Challenges: Convergent Network
Management

 Reduce complexity and

integration costs, by harmonized
 Convergent Network and standardized interfaces
Management to - NGMN as a reference in cross
improve overall OSS SDO coordination
capabilities and  More flexibility and reduced
solutions (facilitated time-to-market in services
by a full IP network) introduction
 Simplification and reduction
of OSS components

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Challenges: Energy Efficiency

 Exploit LTE as a key element in

 LTE provides high the Green Agenda
capacity at a lower
cost per bit  Availability of equipment with
 Energy efficiency improved energy consumption
standards are
available  Define KPI and procedures to
assess network efficiency

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Challenges: multi mode multi band
terminals

 Request for multi mode and

 LTE is the 4G multi band terminals
technology – LTE/HSPA/GSM
for most of the – LTE FDD and TDD
mobile operators – multiple LTE bands for
 FDD and TDD LTE global LTE roaming

 Worldwide spectrum  Device complexity must avoid

fragmentation degradation of radio
performance

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The Role of NGMN
Finalized activities

Converged RESULTS
Quality of Energy Device
Backhauling Network  Sharing of
service efficiency availability
Management vendor
roadmaps
Trial  Spectrum
availability
Spectrum  Trial experience
sharing
SON & Operational  FDD/TD-LTE
efficiency convergence
 SON use cases
Device Definition,  Terminal
Certification and Workshops Certification
 Voice over
Application Enablers
LTE solutions
 Technology
Netwok Aspects
evaluation
 Requirements
SMS & Voice in LTE
for standards

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The Role of NGMN
Ongoing projects

Converged
Quality of Energy Device
Backhauling Network
service efficiency availability
Management

Base Station Antenna Standard (P-BASTA)

Backhaul Evolution for integrated QoS

and small cells (P-BEV)
Centralized processing, Collaborative Radio,
real-time Cloud computing Clean RAN system (P-CRAN)

Multi Antenna Technology (P-MATE)

Requirements for Multi-Band Multi Mode (P-MBMM)\

Next Generation Converged Operations Requirements (P-NGCOR)

Open BBU-RRH Interface (P-OBRI/ETSI-ORI)

Service Quality Definition and

Measurement (P-SERQUDE)
Heterogeneous Networks Evolution
and Operations (P-HETNET)
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Opportunities:
LTE to boost new services and ...

 Diffusion of enhanced smartphones for data services

 Large screen devices
– HD and 3D video, telepresence and TV connected sets
 Ramp up of unified communication services and
video communication

 New low latency services

– interactive gaming
– automotive services (e.g. safety),
– mobile cloud

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... to improve efficiency

 A native IP architecture
– Improved data management and video streaming

– IMS for voice over IP, video conference

– Differentiated quality based services ….

 First European UBB system on a low frequency band

– LTE to bridge the Digital Divide

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Telecom Italia insight: the LTE reasons

 Shortage of spectrum in near future

LTE
considering the mobile data traffic growth
Advanced
forecast
LTE
HSPA+
 Maintain value and competitiveness and …
2010
HSPA  … the leadership in MBB and UBB markets
UMTS
 Gain loyalty of high valued customers
EDGE

GPRS
2000
 Enable distinctive offering; new typologies
GSM
of services (e.g. video based M2M, Mobile
1990
Cloud)
 Allow the growth of ARPU
 Enable optimal management of data traffic
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 Telecom Italia insight: the bulk and beyond

Telecom Italia Vodafone Wind 3

Bandwidth
800 FDD 5 5 5 5 5 5 10 MHz
 1800 MHz
1800 FDD
(*) 5 5 5 5 5 5 5 5 5 5 5 15 MHz available in 2012
1800 FDD 5 5 5 5 MHz
 800 & 2600 MHz
2600 FDD 5 5 5 5 5 5 5 5 5 5 5 5 15 MHz
since 2013 on

2600 TDD 15 15 (*) already available for GSM

Bands Throughput Carrier

[MHz] [Mbps]1 Aggregation2
10+10 ~ 150 800+1800
800+1800, 800 +
10+15 ~ 187 2600 or
1800+2600
10+20 ~ 225 800+1800
15+15 ~ 225 1800+2600
1. Peak value, single user per cell, DL: 2x2 MIMO, 64 QAM
15+20 ~ 272 2600+1800 2. Carrier Aggregation refers to different bands
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Telecom Italia insight: LTE deployment scenario

2600
MHz 2600
1800 MHz MHz
1800 MHz
800 MHz 800 MHz

2G, 3G, HSPA+

LTE

LTE as an evolution of Telecom Italia MBB in a seamless way with existing

2G and 3G networks

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Telecom Italia insight: LTE deployment scenario

Turin, 15 February 2012

For the first time in Italy, starting
tomorrow in Turin people will be
able to try out Telecom Italia’s
ultra-broadband services, ………
-------------------------------------------
New LTE USB dongles are
available to the public for mobile
access to high-definition
multimedia content,………………..

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